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:32BitsOnline: Linux in Business: Did Microsoft Try To Kill UNIX?
32BitsOnline: Linux in Business: Did Microsoft Try To Kill UNIX?
Dec 1, 1999, 06 :06 UTC (11 Talkback[s]) (8833 reads)

(Other stories by Tom Adelstein)

[ Thanks to Julie Blosser for this link. ]

"If Microsoft does have a hold on corporate messaging, can the enterprise return to making sound technology decisions by breaking that hold? Perhaps, even, re-forming the question to ask (given the rise of other messaging technologies etc.): Can we trust corporations who have made questionable or inferior technological decisions in the past to make better technological decisions in the future? Or will the sway and tug of marketing ("... nobody ever got fired for buying IBM") and reductionist thinking continue to hold?..."

"Microsoft claims that the United States Justice Department has interfered with innovation in the computer industry. One can't help but wonder what people would call the collective effort of the developers who created Linux. The Linux community's innovation came as a reaction to the stifling presence of a firm now labeled a monopoly."

"If enterprise messaging helped Microsoft dominate the market and put a dent in UNIX's market share, then perhaps a Linux solution can reverse the damage. Where DEC claimed that NT reduced the cost of ownership from $1675 to $250 per user, Linux ought to reduce that figure further."

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Tom, Your pieces are usually great.  Thi ...   Tom,Tom, Tom: Old news, off-the-mark-news, good ne   
dinotrac
Dec 1, 1999, 13:09:36
 

> DEC's research [September '96 ...   Market shares in 2000   
JCA
Dec 1, 1999, 15:36:10
 
I would have to take issue with the last ...   Subject relavent now...   
Isamu Wada
Dec 1, 1999, 16:07:45
 
I wondering which one of us is off the m ...   Re: Tom,Tom, Tom: Old news, off-the-mark-news, goo   
Tom Adelstein
Dec 1, 1999, 17:35:04
 
They were very close. Remember 80% of th ...   Re: Market shares in 2000   
Tom
Dec 1, 1999, 17:38:20
 
TradeMail is the product you haven't ...   Re: Subject relavent now...   
Natas
Dec 1, 1999, 17:43:59
 
Do you mean to say that Notes doesn' ...   Re: Re: Tom,Tom, Tom: Old news, off-the-mark-news,   
dinotrac
Dec 1, 1999, 20:19:37
 
We're having two conversations, me t ...   Re: Re: Re: Tom,Tom, Tom: Old news, off-the-mark-n   
Tom
Dec 1, 1999, 21:30:44
 
I found lots of useful information in th ...   Odd   
Matt Benjamin
Dec 1, 1999, 22:40:38
 
now that you see the error of your ways! ...   Re: Re: Re: Re: Tom,Tom, Tom: Old news, off-the-ma   
dinotrac
Dec 1, 1999, 23:38:52
 
I read Kevin Ericson's "Implementati ...   Linux mail vs. Exchange   
Rob
Dec 2, 1999, 03:44:40
 
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